Saint Iakovos Tsalikis icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon, Byzantine art wall hanging canvas icon w/ gold leaf wood plaque, religious gift

A UNIQUE AND AUTHENTIC HANDMADE PIECE OF ART with the representation of the Saint elder Iakovos Tsalikis adorned with Golden leaf. A wonderful artwork by following the technique instilled in Mount Athos - one of the most beloved pictorial themes.

This wonderful canvas icon has been crafted on solid natural wood and it was carved by hand. The creator of this icon has learned the canonization of Byzantine iconography.

Saint elder Iakovos Tsalikis was among the holiest Elders who lived in Greece the past decades. His holiness is acknowledged by almost all Greeks and thousands of faithful from the rest world. His entire holy life and the miracles he worked and is still working today place him among the biggest recent Saints of the Orthodox Christian Religion.

He avoided all material pleasures, seeking fervently instead spiritual joy. And God did provide him with it through holy experiences at night, but also through pilgrims. One of them was the then Metropolitan of Chalcedon and now Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. On February 10, 1989, he visited the monastery and served Divine Liturgy. The elder was particularly pleased and “prophesied” to him in certainty (when Patriarch Demetrios was still in good health): “You will become Patriarch! You will shepherd Christ’s Church. I pray that you visit St. David’s monastery as Patriarch.” The elder offered him an icon and gave him also a sprig of basil for Patriarch Demetrios with the request to “pray for our monastery.” Two years later, humble Demetrios slept, and the issue of a new Patriarch arose. In October 1991, the elder was informed by a visiting priest that the Turkish government was considering removing the names of the synodical metropolitans from the candidates list. The elder went down into the temple, prayed to St. David, and came back to the priest: “I prayed, Father, to St. David. ‘St. David’, I told him, ‘you have surely granted all my requests so far. Now,